Quotes About Decision

When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

God's wisdom means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

Night is the mother of counsels.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.